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Dylan Buth
Dylan Buth

Reputation: 1666

composer.json not loading forked repo

I used How to require a fork with composer and https://getcomposer.org/doc/05-repositories.md#vcs to come up with the composer.json file below. I forked a lib to update the composer.json file and it is not loading mine. It is loading the original repo.

 "repositories": [{
  "type": "vcs",
  "url": "https://github.com/Dylan-Buth/gopher"
}],
"require": {
    "laravel/framework": "~5.0",
    "indatus/gopher": "1.*"
},

Upvotes: 0

Views: 461

Answers (1)

Justin Howard
Justin Howard

Reputation: 5643

Even after you fork the repository, composer will still try to resolve version 1.*. So it will get your forked repository, but it will look up the latest 1.* version. Even if you put * as the version requirement, it will still get the latest tag, not the latest commit.

If you want the latest commit, you can put dev-master as the required version string. Alternatively you could modify the composer.json in your forked package to "alias" the version you want:

{
    "extra": {
        "branch-alias": {
            "dev-master": "1.1"
        }
    }
}

Upvotes: 2

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